Travel-free Webinars
Three quarters of nonprofit folks who participated in a survey conducted last year by Andy Goodman on teleconferencing, videoconferencing, and Webinars said they had no special training in how to participate in or lead a webinar. That’s likely to change in the near future.

If you are away from Chicago, stuck in your office, or low on training budget one- hour webinars can be a good way to gain new skills in the comfort of your office or home with our webinars!

Read more about our webinars on our blog!

“I learned to carefully think through who our audience is as a necessary first step to message development….Thanks for a great workshop. It was a tremendous resource.”
From an attendee of this webinar in July

Read the rest of the survey responses from July
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Tweet Tweet – Twitter
Trainer: Lovette Ajayi; Tuesday, September 28: 2 - 3:15 p.m.

The Workshop’s resident Twitter expert Lovette Ajayi recently twittered her way to winning two Toshiba computers at Blogher and is the main voice of The Workshop’s @npcommunicator account. Learn why the hype is still going about Twitter nearly 2 years after the tool started and how it can benefit you.

Plus: attendees will receive a list from the 2010 Getting On Air, Online & Into Print media guide of Chicago-area journalists on Twitter!

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Communicamp: How do each of us fit in to the changing media landscape?

• Open conference structure
• Advanced training for nonprofit communicators, journalists, social media-ologists.
• Connect with close colleagues and new partners to examine and learn how best to tell stories about Chicago and its communities today

Q. What do you want to talk about at Communicamp?

A. "CommuniCamp sounds like a great opportunity to meet fellow bloggers, journalists and others interested not just in business models and content ideas going forward, but in exploring ways that we can work together to ensure our survival. I expect to come away with a lot of tips, ideas, new relationships and hopefully some concrete plans for the future." Steve Rhodes, The Beachwood Reporter I NBCChicago.com

CommuniCamp Co-Conveners:
Emily Culbertson, Consultant to Philanthropy & Nonprofit Organizations
Ken Davis
Keidra Chaney, DePaul University
Laura Fletcher, Chicago Foundation for Women
Bernie Ryan, HarborQuest
John Plunkett, HarborQuest
Steve Rhodes, Beachwood Reporter
Ernest Sanders, Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corp.
Scarlett Swerdlow, Illinois Arts Alliance
Al Shaw, Community Renewal Society
Esther Cepeda, 600Words
Hope Daniels, Columbia College Chicago
Cassandra West

Want to join us? List in formation!
Facilitated by Jean Russell, founder of Nurture.biz

Sponsored by:

Take Advantage of the $95 Early Bird Special! (Register before Sept. 8) / $125 Regular. REGISTER TODAY!

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Power Pitching 2.0
9 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, September 23; 218 S. Wabash, Rm. 919
Andrew Huff & Claudia Kovitz lead a session on pitching everyone from the print reporter who refuses to use email to bloggers who are best reached on Twitter. REGISTER

Dynamic Newsletter Writing
9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, October 8, 600 S. Wabash Ave., Room 401
Print or online, the copy still has to be strong. Learn more from Patrice Touhy.

“Patrice gave a great overview/comparison of hard copy newsletter vs. electronic. Good confirmation of many things one knows already, but needs to hear again and good tips on the most basic info that I needed to hear, e.g. use of caps in titles.” REGISTER

BROWN BAG

Communications Strategy, Noon to 2 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 24, co-sponsored by Evanston Public Library featuring Tara Malone of The Chicago Tribune, Mary Gavin of Evanston Roundtable, and a representative from MakeItBetter.net.

More upcoming events and workshops:

Social Media Need To Know, 9 a.m. to noon, Friday October 16 with Kara Carell

Branding for Nonprofits, 9 a.m. to noon, Thursday, October 22, with Chris Beebe

SEO for Success, 9 a.m. to noon, Friday, November 6, with Tim Frick

Crafting a Quick and Dirty Marketing Strategy Webinar, Monday, November 9 with Kivi Leroux Miller

Web Analytics Free Brown Bag Workshop, noon to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12

Professional Media Relations starts Friday, January 22, 2010 with Thom Clark and Gordon Mayer

For the most updated list of trainings and scheduled workshops any time, please visit bit.ly/CMWworkshops

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“Community, Media and You” Saturdays at 8 p.m. on CAN TV21


Youth Violence and Mikva Challenge Airs August 29th & September 12 on CAN TV21
On this episode of Community Media & You, we’ll talk with three high school students from the Mikva Challenge about the realities of violence in their communities and what should be done about it. View Now

Housing Crunch - Helping Renters Airs September 5th on CAN TV21
We talk with some experts about the impact of the distressed economy on our city’s housing sector and how Chicago is responding to the challenges it faces. View Now

View the video archives

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A new media guide is coming
News outlet consolidations, closings, mergers, brand new online media, and expanding ethnic media - how does a communicator keep up with the ever shifting media landscape?

SUBSCRIBE to Getting On Air, Online & Into Print! Our updated 2010 version will be arriving this October. It will not only provide you the information of journalists and news outlets you need but will also keep you educated about the best practices of how to contact them and get your story out!

Can't wait for the 2010 Edition? Order YOUR copy of the 2009 Guide today at www.newstips.org/cart

Order YOUR copy of the 2009 Guide today at www.newstips.org/cart

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Latest from Newstips
Pilsen charter school move challenged
The sudden news that CPS plans to relocate a politically-connected charter school to the building of a recently-closed neighborhood school in Pilsen has once again raised concerns over lack of accountability for school facilities decisions — and over charter schools getting resources that are denied to neighborhood schools. Read More

Recent Newstips blog posts

Wal-Mart breaks the law
In June we noted that NLRB has found Wal-Mart guilty of an array of legal violations — spying, harassment, intimidation, illegal firings — and Human Rights Watch concluded the company violates its employees “internationally recognized rights to freedom of association”

Police ’sensitivity training,’ tasers
Racial sensitivity training is trotted out as the solution after every new outrage, but does it work? Not much, according to Boston Mayor Tom Menino and others cited at Alternet.

Health care debacle
Chicago writers chime in on the health care debate/debacle: At In These Times, David Moberg charts the steady loss of ground by progressives, despite favorable terrain, and ponders whether any bill is better than nothing. “The weaker the bill—that is, the further from ‘Medicare for All’ —the more likely reform will fall far short of universality, fail to control costs, and even backfire politically.” And he suggests that those who abandoned single-payer out of political expediency may have miscalculated.

Read all latest Newstips | Read Newstips Blog

Newstips is a grassroots news service providing journalists with stories and sources from Chicago-area nonprofits and community organizations. Journalists can receive Newstips via email or subscribe to this RSS feed.

Nonprofits can send their press releases and stories to Curtis Black, Newstip Editor via email at curtis@newstips.org.

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Movie premiere: Radical Disciple: The Story Of Father Pfleger (2009) Friday, August 28 at 8:15 p.m., Gene Siskel Film Center and Sunday, August 30 at 5 p.m., part of Black Harvest Film Festival
Q and A after the shows with Father Pfleger Friday evening; Director Bob Hercules will be present for both screenings. Cost is $10 general admission; $7 students. For more information, call 312-846-2600 (general information) or 312-846-2800 (Hotline) or visit www.siskelfilmcenter.org.

Developing an annual sponsorship program for your agency 7:30 – 9:30 a.m., Thursday, September 17, B177c, McHenry County College
Participants will learn to identify and approach corporate sponsors with a concise proposal for annual sponsorship. Read more on nonprofitcommunicators.ning.com

Civic Action Networks’s Three-Day Organizer Training
The three-day training identifies key organizing principles, shows how values influence those principles, and teaches you how to be an effective organizer and leader. Read more at http://www.communityrenewalsociety.org

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Office and Community Relations Manager
The Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship at The University of Chicago Law School seeks an energetic, professional person to fill the role of Office and Community Relations Manager. The IJ Clinic aims to secure and expand economic liberty in Chicago by offering free legal assistance to aspiring inner-city entrepreneurs, training law students to counsel low-income entrepreneurs, and advocating for individuals’ freedom to start businesses without government bureaucracy holding them back. Read more at www.nonprofitcommunicators.ning.com.

News Literacy Project program coordinator
The News Literacy Project, a national nonprofit educational program that brings journalists into middle and high schools to give students the critical thinking skills to sort fact from fiction in the digital age, is seeking a Chicago program coordinator. Read more at www.nonprofitcommunicators.ning.com.

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